Brendan O’NeillThe myth of a crazy,all-powerful PC armyIn a speech in Sydney, Brendan O’Neill called on critics of PC to stop playing the victim and to start acting like proper, self-respecting heretics.

Frank FurediCameron’s cure will make society sickerThe PM's post-riots promise of more intervention into troubled families is mad – it is precisely such intervention that devastated parental authority.

Angus KennedyLa mort de l’EuropeDavid Marquand wants to sound an alarm about the state of the EU, but his hostility to the ideals of the West only serves to express the cancer at the heart of the European project.

Tim BlackThe unfunniest arse in God’s universeThis is a meandering, wittering book that claims to be about faith but reveals far more about its comedian-author Marcus Brigstocke’s nasty prejudices.

Patrick HayesA short history of predicting the futureDan Gardner rightly skewers failed forecasts, past and present, but he relies on a few dubious ideas himself when he tries to explain why so many experts get it wrong.